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1. |
Bad Blood
03:59
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My head’s filled with rust
My head’s filled with dust so that
I can get aaaaaaahhhhhhhh
Now my soul boxed up
Now to sell my soul
Have to run back and aaaaaaaaahhhhhhh
Where there is no hope
Where there is no hope
It’s just a degradation aaaaaaahhhhhhh
Tell me what it means
Tell me what it means
To believe in something aaaaaaahhhhhhh
You know you gotta work
If you wanna get paid
Yeah
You know you can’t come here
If you wanna get
Mmm mmm mmmm mmm mmmm
Told you find your thing
But you took it too
Fff fff fff ffff far
Said at least you tried
But don’t you wanna get…
Well you can’t go home
No you can’t go home
There’s too much bad blood aaaaaaahhhhhhh
Somewhere along the way
Somewhere long the way
You sorta stumbled and you aaaaaaahhhhh
It’s something we both know
It’s something we both know
It’s deeply polarizing aaaaahhhhhhh
Said I don’t mind the fires
No I don’t mind the fighting
If it means we get to aaaaaaahhhhhh
You know you gotta work
If you wanna get paid
Yeah
Said you can’t come here
If you wanna get
Mmmm mmmm mmmm mmmm mmmm
Told you find your thing
But you took it too
Fff fff fff fff far
Said at least you tried
But don’t you wanna get…
You know you gotta work
If you wanna get paid
Yeah
Said you can’t come here
If you wanna get
Mmmm mmmm mmmm mmmm mmmm
Told you find your thing
But you took it too
Fff fff fff fff far
Said at least you tried
But don’t you wanna get…
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2. |
Code White
04:24
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Cure rate greater than 90%
No known negative side effects
Easily applied highly effective
Oh so safe
Sensitive nerves cost too much
Bought a bottle of valium
Strolled out to the harbor
Cause you never know
How it’s gonna go
If I tell you
It’ll be alright
In the morning
Will you close your eyes?
The raccoon went up the tree
To rest and feed his family
His claws were sharpened on
Metal cans
And alley cats
If I tell you
It’ll be alright
In the morning
Will you close your eyes?
If I tell you
It’ll work out fine
In the morning
Will you close your eyes?
Tell me where you’re running to
And we’ll run together
Run together
Tell me where you’re running from
And we’ll run forever
Run forever
Ill defined the master
Shoulder bag of prescription pills
Connected well to everything
Bottles half full
And all refills
If I tell you
It’ll be alright
In the morning
Will you close your eyes?
If I tell you
It’ll work out fine
In the morning
Will you close your eyes?
Code yellow
Missing patient
Code gold
Missing child
Code white
Violence in the workplace
Code orange
Mass casualty
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3. |
Late July
01:16
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June nineteenth was a Sunday
morning fog you could
cut with a knife
crooked bridge stretched out
with a yawn there
when she barreled
right over its side
no one saw her Bentley
hit the water
finally pulled her out
in late July
in late July
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4. |
Swim
03:39
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As I swim through this black hole
Navigating past my sins
If I stop, I know I’m going to drown
Eyes that look past me
Eyes that don’t see
Hands that don’t touch
Oh, these days
There’s concern for the truth
I know I’m not ready
There’s concern for the truth
I know I’m not ready
There’s concern for the truth
I know I’m not ready
There’s concern for the truth
I know I’m not ready
The burden that’s carried
Isn’t something you could do
If it wasn’t for me, you’d be in this hole too
With eyes that look past me
Eyes that don’t see
Hands that don’t touch
Oh, these days
There’s concern for the truth
I know I’m not ready
There’s concern for the truth
I know I’m not ready
There’s concern for the truth
I know I’m not ready
There’s concern for the truth
I know I’m not ready
Oh oh, I’m not ready
Swim through this black hole
Swim through this black hole
Swim through this black hole
Swim through this black hole
Swim
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5. |
Glowstick
03:09
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Came up from the basement with nothing much to say
Nothing in the mirror, but digital delay
And you’re just like a glowstick, shining in the night
Broken on the inside, giving away your light
Looking for a deadline, but tripping on your own wires
You’re plain to see
Standing at attention, for the changing of the keg
Dancing around in circles on a crooked wooden leg
And you’re just like a glowstick, shining in the night
Broken on the inside, giving away your light
Looking for a deadline, but tripping on your own wires
You’re plain to see
Went to the doctor, to ask him where to go
Talked to Dr. Phil, consulted Dr. Ho
And you’re just like a glowstick, shining in the night
Broken on the inside, giving away your light
Looking for a deadline, but tripping on your own wires
You’re plain to see
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6. |
By Night
00:29
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7. |
First Aid
04:13
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Raccoon eyes
Bruised behind both eyes
Result of a skull fracture
Where skull meets spine
Raccoon is a sharp snouted
North American
Nocturnal carnivore
Oh oh oh
Halo effect
When leaking cerebral spinal fluid
Out ears and nose
Sometimes blood
With bandage you see
Red circle
Clear around the outside
Oh oh oh
But you’re not dead
Till you’re warm and dead
Not dead
Oh oh oh
There’s a new breed of brown snake
Has rattlesnake poison
But no rattle
Oh oh oh
How to treat
Penetrating chest injuries
You can’t do much
Oh oh oh
But you’re not dead
Till you’re warm and dead
Not dead
Oh oh oh
You’re not dead
Till you’re warm and dead
Not dead
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Ah ah ah
Ah ah ah
Ooooo ooooo
Oooooooo oooooo
Ah ah ah
Ah ah ah
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8. |
Back Alley Chase Song
02:53
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Each step my heart quickens, heat at my heels
Instinct guide my motions, fear is all I feel
Driven the spirit pierces, slowly rises up
Me, I am now open, feast from this cup
A way away, a way away, a way away, I’ll find a way
Silence is telling, its tone loud and strong
Shadows hide my secrets, into the world they’re known
Taken what it’s come for, helpless I obey
Forcing the blade forward, fight another day
A way away, a way away, a way away, I’ll find a way
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9. |
Breathe
03:58
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You left your house early last morning
Dragging your feet with the weight
Like crumbs on the ground crunched under your feet
Some days the pain hardly waits
Looking back, we’d barely know the way the world would shake
Sleep with your eyes closed
Dream without the ghosts
Before everything changed
If you need to breathe
Oh, you just have to say
You’re all torn up inside
Your hope still like a child’s
If you need to breathe
Oh, you just have to say
You’re all torn up inside
You’re’ all torn up, all torn up inside
I was six when I learned the hard way
Trust isn’t always safe
When the officer arrived on the scene
He could see it on my face
So many years passed
I’d barely know, a world that would find ways
To give out hope and rip it away
But our smiles they stayed the same
If you need to breathe
Oh, you just have to say
You’re all torn up inside
Your hope still like a child’s
If you need to breathe
Oh, you just have to say
You’re all torn up inside
You’re’ all torn up, all torn up inside
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10. |
scrtgvrnmtmndcntrlprjct
02:57
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When we were younger
The days were so much longer
Falling
On the day you died
You took both my eyes
Falling
Falling
Swatting flies with eye lashes
Dipping pain in plain molasses
Swatting flies with eye lashes
Dipping pain in plain molasses
Secular clergy
Ruin of the monkey
Falling
Chalk white bones
Bleached bones
Falling
Falling
Swatting flies with eye lashes
Dipping pain in plain molasses
Swatting flies with eye lashes
Dipping pain in plain molasses
Loyal to his castle
Profit and glory
Falling
Into oblivion
Most obvious
Falling
Crawling
Swatting flies with eye lashes
Dipping pain in plain molasses
Swatting flies with eye lashes
Dipping pain in plain molasses
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11. |
Music Box
00:50
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You’re not dead
Till you’re warm and dead
Not dead
Oh oh oh
You’re not dead
Till you’re warm and dead
Not dead
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
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12. |
Hunt is Long
03:20
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My heart is running with the wolves again
Feels so happy
To belong
Feeding the mouth of every sharpened fang
She said the hunt it
Turns her on
Rip grip muscle from the bone
Bit and tear and
Carrion
More blood the more we love
Feast is short
The hunt is long
Oh the hunt is long
Oh oh
The hunt is long
Oh oh the hunt is long
Oh
The hunt is long
It resides
In the sweet pools
Behind
Your eyes
It resides
In the sweet pools behind
Your eyes
It resides
In the sweet pools behind your
Eyes
Your eyes
Your
Eyes
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13. |
Slow Wave
03:12
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You’re like a slow wave
Don’t know how to behave
And you think that he will wash away all your pain
You get carried away
In an ocean escape
The water’s deep
You hear her call your name
Like a slow wave, take what you can take
Ahhhhh
Like a slow wave, crushing all the bait
Ahhhhh
Shhhhhhh
He wants to give you some space
But the space she will waste
And bury you under her ocean wing
When she calls out your name
Will you run away or stay
Gets easy to close your eyes and wash it all away
Like a slow wave, take what you can take
Ahhhhh
Like a slow wave, crushing all the bait
Ahhhhh
Shhhhhhh
Like a slow wave, take what you can take
Ahhhhh
Like a slow wave, crushing all the bait
Ahhhhh
Shhhhhhh
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14. |
Tickets
04:06
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I like the way you look in the mirror
A reflection more truthful than I could be
Winter rain and summer snowfall
Foggy car rides traced carefully
Remember ice chips and simple pleasures
First kisses so wet made it hard to breathe
A sun’s reflection on fashioned sidewalks
Secrets so bold shared carelessly
The ghosts buy tickets, for the show
To watch the youth
They used to know
The ghosts buy tickets, for the show
To watch the youth
They used to know
Know
Know
I like the way you’re too young to be old
Renaissance has never looked so good
Stories that steal from dark places inside
Giving birth to forgiveness as we move down the line
Down the line
The ghosts buy tickets, for the show
To watch the youth
They used to know
The ghosts buy tickets, for the show
To watch the youth
They used to know
Know
Know
Know
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TCOSS Calgary, Alberta
"TCOSS feels like the Second Coming of nineties indie rock. You can imagine these guys spending late nights listening to
Surfer Rosa, Slanted and Enchanted, and The Lonesome Crowded West."
- IMVERYAPE
The bands 2022 full-length release represents their most dynamic effort to date, with five songwriters, four part harmonies, and several guests.
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